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Stay away from the devil's pets

By Tona Fashina, Guest Pastor
Published 11:00 p.m. CT June 24, 2017

Evangelist Tona Fashina is the founder of the Last Day Revival Ministries, an outreach of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Nigeria, headquarters in Nigeria, Africa. To contact him, call 318-416-3983.(Photo: File Photo)

The topic of my message today is stay away from the devil's pets. Just like people have pets the devil has pets too. I personally like cats, dogs, fox, and beavers for pets, but I don't have any in my house.

One of the devil's pets is buzzards. They love to eat road kill -- dead animals run over by cars and trucks. When the spirit of a buzzard enters your soul, you will be looking back at the dead past -- bad news that happened to you in the past -- and that will hinder you from going forward in the Lord. Forgetting the things in the past, we should press forward to the mark of our high calling in Jesus.

Another pet of the devil is the chicken. This represents the spirit of fear. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of love, faith, and a sound mind.

Another pet of the devil is the bat. A bat is half animal, half bird. Any time you get attacked by the spirit of a bat you become a two face, double-minded Christian -- one leg in the world and the other leg in the church.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. We must have an unshakable faith in God. When a Christian man is unequally yoked with an unbelieving woman, and the unbelieving woman is trying to control the Christian man, it makes one feel like when God took the rib out of man -- it's as if He used it to make a loud speaker, and called it a woman.

Another pet of Satan is a bee. Bees like to stick together, but we Christians don't. Bees don't like strangers around them. If you or I come around their business factory, we will get stung and wind up at Rapides Regional Medical Center or Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital. Bees represent an angry spirit. We should not be angry, but we should rejoice in the Lord always and, again I say, rejoice.

Another pet of Satan is the dog. The spirit of a dog is the spirit of backsliding. A dog always goes back to his own vomit. Like dogs, there are so many backsliding Christians. After God has delivered us, saved us, and filled us with the Holy Ghost why do we want to go back to Egypt, back to the world?

We need to determine to go all the way with Jesus in these last and evil days. We need to go back to the Bible! We need a revival and a Re-Bible!.

Another pet of Satan is the snake. It deceived Adam and Eve and drove them out of the garden of Eden because the devil wants to take over the Garden of Eden for himself out of jealousy. When we know Jesus, the truth, it will set us free from Satan the liar. Stay away from demonic animals.

Peace be unto you.

Evangelist Tona Fashina is the founder of the Last Day Revival Ministries, an outreach of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Nigeria, headquarters in Nigeria, Africa. To contact him, call 318-416-3983.